Her career began in Riga and Warsaw where she worked as a dancer. Then she was engaged by the Shinx Film in Warsaw and her breakthrough came when Friedrich Zelnik spotted her and engaged her to Berlin.
She only took part in one talky in the 30's called "Anna und Elisabeth" (1933), after that she retired from the film business.
The Swedish actress Sybil Smolowa (also Smolova) appeared in German as well as in Swedish movies.
She was an Austrian-Czech actress and dancer and a star of the German and Swedish silent cinema of the 1910s and 1920s.
Her final film was the lesbian themed Anna und Elisabeth/Anna and Elisabeth (1933).